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tt'v THE 5TRI-CITY DAILY GAZETTE r { 'f u VO' UME XIL NO. 197 LF.AKSVII LE, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY. BE^TEMBillt, 7, 1928 TWO CENTS PER COPY T 'EMENDOS POWDER EXPLOSION KILL FOUR INJURES 27; 15 HI AY DIE ..youth Amboy, N. J. September 7. — Auiee persons an da boy were hill ed and 27. persons were injured, 15 probably fatall^r by an explosion to day of thousands of cases of smoke less powder which were being trans ferred from barges to freight cars, on the banks of the Raritan rived. The explosion caused by a cooking stove fire on one of the barges rock ed the entire countryside, biew auto mobiles upside down on ‘ the road nearby and enveloped everyone with in 100 yards in a sheet of flame. The i o men killed were Winston Tayior . ..* William Trench of New ark. The third was unidentified. The boy who-e body has not been recover ed was blow., into the river. The powder consisted of a shipment ct ib8,OoO eace^ belonging to the Atlas i owder Co. A trui’.i of cars were immediately hauled from the zone blazing, and feft sanding on a trestle bridge crossing the main automobile road. Motorists slowed down to watch the fire ignorant of what' the cars con tained. The first explosion stalled all the engines and those in the au tomobile:- were left helpless. '.Before those near the bridge had chain, c to escape there followed a wseond and a third jpxplosion as ad ditional freight cars were swept by tbs flamer- At each blast the air for 100 yards around was filled with flame. P Sevetal wome nin automobiles passing under the bridge were envel oped in flames, their light summer dresses catching fire readily. Tbt fire was brought under con trol aft# rthree hours. BANK WRECKER CAUGHT Boston, September 7—Joseph ;B. Marcino, brought here today from Boaeton, Texas to face trial on the o» making the First Nation;, wsr* last February, admitted that- he topic 1^13,000 in securities from the hank,^according to Assistant United States Attorney John V. Sullivan. Marcino declared ha knew where the bonds are, ano hoped that the bank would recover every dollar, Sullivan said. DAMAGE SUIT DROPPED Danville, Va., September 7—Char ges against four Patrick county of , ficers brought by William Manley on the charge that they shot him in course of a pursuit have been dropped and a $10,000 damage suit against them has been' withdrawn. During the hearing held at Stuart it developed that the woman with whom Manley tvas living was not his wife and when the sensational disclosure had been made both sides agreed- to ^conference which was announced that an effective compro mise had, been reached. The terms were not given out. ALL REPORTED SAFE ..Boston, September 7 —The Amer ican hoard of commissioners for for sign missions today received a cable gram'from Dr. E. P. Cobb in Japan which reported that there, was. no cause for anxiety as all members of the commission were quite safe. The telegram was the first direct news the bodrd had received since the dis aster. Most of the board's activities ia Japfin arc in districts outside the earthquake sons. —,—._o__ NARRAGANSETT LOSES MOTEL Narragansett Pier, R. I. September 7.—The Imperial Hotel hero was de stroyed by fire early today, the 40 guests escaping scantily * clad. The loss was $(00,000. The Hotel Massassoit also caught fire, but it was confined to ser vants ourlr'ers. Private houses near by were damaged. Mt~* Andrew Tuttle and daughV" Cnd neice and nephew r? yesterday from Virgin} i Sb.* - ijef spent ion day3. £ Maurire 1 ’ - % Mrs. M. L. Heiner, T;rtru$e He^er are sp.?n^i/5g * - ? d-y in Danville. an* the GERMAN DRY LEADER w Wilhelm SoIImann, leader of thei anti-alcohol movement In Germany and number of the German diet, who has become very active of late. MINTER GUILTY OF MURDER Newman, Ga., September 7.—J. W. Minter tonight was found guilty of murder in the first degree by a jury in connection with the d ath of Mil lard Troutpn his son-in-law. Minter went on trial here today and follow ing the verdict his attorneys at once made known their intention of ap plying for a new trial. The date the death penalty is to be carried out was not fixed, pending the new tria> motion. Lakehiirst, N. J., September 7.— After cruising and hour and 20 min ute-. above the United States naval air station here tonight the naval air ship ZR-1 successfully completed its second trial flight touching the ground at 7:40 with every wire and stay in ship shape condition. All six engines were tried during the flight gKj. ACxAttJ. -o—1 MAYOR HYLAJtf BETTER Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Septem ber 7.—Mayor Hylan of New York, who suffered a relapse ysterday, was murh better this morning, relatives said. Symptoms of pleurisy develop ed yesterday with some indications, of bronchial pneumonia, according to ' he family, disappeared during the night. -----O -- M/CON FLOGGERS ARE WORK OF KU KLUCKERS I aeon, Ga., September, 7.—Charles H. Garrett, solicitor of the Bibb Cir cui Superior Court who is in charge •>f rhe preparation of evidence for the trial of seven persons accused of flogging in this county declared tor'ght that the members of the Ku t<o- v klan are deeply involved in the loc: 1 cases. Evidence in a vast majority of c" 's. -3id Mr. Garrett tonight, indi cates that those persons arrested in connection with the flopyiifgs are me ibers of the klan. There also is evi 'ence of organized activity on the ( on-1 of members of this body This is nparently well understood by the pr ole of the community. '"r. Garrett said that in connection wi i the seven persons arrested or. inst each of whom they are t"*o or more 'cases, the evidence over ■'’"dngly indicates members of th” klan. f ' he klan headquarters, Mr. Gar re' ■- sifted is o'on vine that the local •m* - Were authorized by the klan as an organization. He expressed the ’’o"cf that the klan headquarters is ’ding money with apparent sin ce* ‘ty in connection with the local investigation and appears to be es pecially desirous pf exposing Its own members who have peen trapped as participants in the flogging; THE GAZETTE hTeVERY HOME BIG PARTIES RFE SEEKING HlRUnur President Coolidge Automatically Bo comes Prominent in the List, Stak ing His Chances on His Personality and Record of Achievements. By EDWARD B. CLARK Washington.—For a week or so the Democratic* national committee rested from its lubors in behalf of the party. It did so out of respect to the memory of Warren G. Harding, President of the United States. Now, however, naturally enough the party work has begun again and from this time on un til next June there will be a whirring of the political machinery with tl$e in tention of turning out a finished prod uct in the shape of party harmony. ( It Is, perhaps, needless to say, also, that the Republican national com mittee again Is at work lu an effort to do the same thing that the Demo cratic brethren are trying to do. ft Is hard to tell Just which of the two parties today is the more puzzled con cerning wlmt may be called the can didate f tare. y It slioaid seem hardly necessary to repeat friquently the statement that national committees are not suppose! I to concc:n themselves in any way wit the ambitions of men who are enndi- | dates for the nominations. It Is a curious fact, however, that from -the letters which one gets now and then. ii woiim seem some people mini? tne work of the nationnl committees prior to the conventions is Just as their work Is nfter the convention's. 'If either the Democraflc or the Repub lican committee should exercise its energies to forward the fortunes of any one candidate for the nomination, the row raised would reach such di mensions that the committeemen prob ably would resign to save their skins. Plenty of Candidates. • In other letters from Washington the complete change in the Republican situation since the death of President Harding has been noted. Where there virtually was but one candidate for the nomination or at best only two, there now are several, not active can didates as yet bnt who contemplate entrance into the field. The death of Warren G. Harding made President Coolidge a prominent candidate auto matically, but It also made candi dates of other men. The Democratic situation Is ai.H, sou# tM»«r except that it is taking on more salient features day by day. Some Democrats here and there are saying that this man or that man will not do, while other Deni crats are saying that they will do. The men who either will do” or “will not do” are men who are permanently fixed in the public eye as likely candi dates. There undoubtedly will be several Republican candidates as there are certain to be, and are now, several Democratic candidates. One leading Republican said to the writer the other day that bad as the Republican situa tion Is today, It Is not so bad as the Democratic situation. The Demo crats, probably, would put the thing the other way; for Democracy today seems to think that the death of Pres ident Harding will cause such rivalries In Hie Republican ranks that troubles are to be greater than they were be fore. Coolidge Follows Harding’s Course. President Coolidge has made an other Indirect and yet direct promise to carry out the policies of the Hard ing administration. There has bepn nothing to make it appear that the President in any way makes any ex ception in favor of domestic policies. It seems certain now that he Is com mitted to the Harding plan for Amer ican membership In the International Court o’f Justice. For a time in Washington, newspa per correspondents heard constant ru mors that some of the Republican leaders expected the President to re fuse to carry out a number of the pol icies of bis predecessor. It is a tact that some of the leaders said this thli'g directly, and It was not only ru mor which was depended upon for the facts concerning the expressions on the subject which came from some of the leaders. Now It would seem, unless some swift change comes, that the Coolldge administration Is set on a course which will follow that mapped out by 1 President Harding. Naturally, there will be a good deal of the Ooolldge personality injected Into the program. [ Upon this personality and upon the record of accomplishment. It may be thur Calvin Coolldge stakes his hope of nomination to succeed himself In the office of President. The Democrats, naturally, say that President Coolldge cannot carry out President Harding’s policies because President Harding could not have carrle<l them out hluiseif. The Dem ocrats believe that the irreconcilables and the so-called radicals In the Re publican party, who they think would have defeated the Harding endeavors, also will defeat the Coolldge endeav ors. The Republicans say ''No.” The country must be content to wait sal mSS Coolidgs Apparently Selected Virginian Because He Wanted a PolKIcal Ad vlaer—Former Congressman Well In { formed and Without Party Enemies. By EDWARD B. CLARK '..Washington. — Newspuperdom Washington gets a blow to that pos seshlon which high-browed gentlemen sometimes speak of as amour propre. There was not a newspaper correspond ent in this town who had any thought whatsoever that any man other thun Edward T. Clark was to be appointed as secretary tc the President. It follows Just as thunder comes after lightning, therefore, that there was a distinct surprise and something of chagrin, because no one had guessed It, when the annouu cement was made at the White House that former Repre sentative Campbell Bascom Slemp of Virginia had been appointed secre tary to the President and laid accepted the office. It Is. of eourst* Jmnnssihle always to' * '’at • chit. <•:Iv .'ll. i. Iv<* of men, ' ti.- .loiiticT. us i'i Was,. .glon, uota- I '.v :Jio.se mi'iu'l.c!.-- of i.!i«- Iw.i political | rtii-s w! •:—> diHcged with ll.e work oi dim-iinjr camp.- ■cie-. think that em plovnient of Mr. Slemp means Presl deni (Violidge wants a politienl adviser as well as a private secretary and that he wants one who was not raised In tlie New England school and has not been an active participant la political dealings In any section of tlic Country In which there are party troubles. Of course there may he Republican trou bles in the place In Virginia from which Mr. Slemp comes, but they are Isolated and local. Campbell R. Slemp knows the political situation In all parts of the United States or they af fect the Republican party and Its alms, but from the beginning he has been no party to the differences between .the factions, wherever they may have had their being. Haa .No Enemies in Party More nearly than any other man per haps who readily can be named, Mr. Steinp stands as the figure of one who knows all about it but who has aroused no animosities by knowing all about It, He never was a neutral probably as between Republican factions In any section of the eountry, but it Is certain that In Ills capacity as a member of the Republican national committee, ‘and man political work generally, he never has been active on one side or the other In any trouble between the factions of his party In any state ex cept his own, and Republicanism In Virginia Is not strong. He has made no party enemies East, West or North. Will H. Hays, who was chairman of the Republican national committee In 1920‘and as such directed the victor ious Harding campaign, leaned upon Committeeman Slemp for advice upon Important matters affecting not Mr, Slemp’s home state, but other states. Mr. Hays apparently recognized the value of Mr. Slemp as an observer who was disinterested as between warring cliques and who, therefore, could be depended upon to give unprejudiced counsel. All of the Washington newspaper correspondents, or virtually all of them, know Mr. Slemp. He has been a conspicuous figure about Republican headquarters In Washington. New York ami Chicago for some years nnd, more over, he Was exceedingly prominent In congress, not only because of his legis lative endeavors hut owing to the fact that he was the only Republican repre sentative in the house from the state of Virginia and one of only three or four Republicans to represent southern districts. Clark Is the Private Secretary. Edward T. Clark will remain as President Coolldge’s personal private secretary. There are some politicians here who see in the dual arrangement a condition necessary for the Resi dent, If he has further political ambi tions. Mr. Clark knows all about the party troubles in New England. He wus for years the secretary to Senator Henry Qabot Lodge. New England Is likely to make Calvin Coolldge its fa vorite son candidate for the presidency. Mr. Clark will fit into the personal see* retaryshlp situation admirably; or, at least, so It would seem. In the other and outer office, the more public office, Mr. Slemp will b« In evidence. He knows every member of either house of congress. He knows all the governors of states. Democratic or Republican, and he knows probably what they have been thinking about! politically for the last decade. In other letters from Washington I something was said about former Pres- j ident Harding’s office aids. It was said ' specifically that Mr. Harding had a public secretary and also what In th« most si>eciflc sense'can be called a pri vate secretary. One was George Bl Christian and the etlter Judson C, Wei. liver. It would seem tdday that Calvin Coolldge may take a leaf out of ths book of his predecessor. If he tries to carry out the Harding policies h« will take many leaves out of that book; but the one leaf mentioned Is a per sonal and private leaf, a perusal o! which may be advisable In party poll, tfcal matters, as It Is In public sarvtc* Rud C ?bs' Call Is Being Am vered Faithfully N©w ff SWEM IS CHAMPION Here is Charles L. Swem, former, stenographer to President Wilson, with the silver loving cup emblematic of the shorthand reporters’ championship of the country, wliit-h he received at the i National Shorthand Reporters’ conven tion in Chicago, when he took down 1,403 words of dictated testimony in five minutes and made only nine errors, -o COOLIDGE NAMED AS CANDIDATE FOR 1924 Washington, September 7 (A*)— Senator Willis of Ohio who presented the name of President Harding be fore the 1920 Republican National Convention came out in support of Coolidge for 1924 after a call at the White House. TOKIO IS PRACTICALLY WITHOUT COMMUNICATION Osaka, September 7 MP>—Tokio today was practically cut off from the world and communicatjoii be tween the capitol and Osaka remain ed vry difficult. Order is being wall maintained in the cities of Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Nagoya and Nagaski all of which were safe. -o INTERALLIED COUNCIL HAS ADJOURNED , Paris, September, 7 (A1)—The in- ( terallied council of ambassadors af--| ter a lengthy session this morning, adjourned until afternoon to await definite word whether Italy is pre pared to accept mediation of council in the present Greco-Italian dispute. All further discussions it was said are contigent upon Italy’s reply. TURKISH EUNUCHS ORGANI/.E Constantinople, Sept. 7 A1' -Eun uchs of this city, who constitute the guardians of the harems, have form id a mutual benefit society. This .ction is due to tine straits into vhich many eunuch.> have been 'brown by the aboii*'op of the palate larem, as well as b/ increasing pov erty among uppet-class Turks. •— -o .ANTS INDIANS IN OLYMPICS Liexico City, September 7. <A*k— .,ie :ico should enter a few Tarahu ,nara Indians in the coming Olympic Games at Paris and win every ion;? distance running event, according to Dr. M. Atl, an authority on these primitive natives of Chihauhua. The Tarr.humaras can run six marathons in a day, he declares in describing the part that running figures in the ,e Indians* religion. One of the Tarahumara hunters from the Min er: 1 de Ocampo district has covered 90 kilometers in 24 hours,'the doctor assarts. FI?:ST EXECUTION IN U. S. SAMOA Pago, Pago, American 'Samoa, September, 7 (*>)—1Toeupu, a native Sn:noan paid the death penalty here v'p--‘ntiy for a murder committed on July 2. It was the first execution here under the American administra tion. . t.OST—Collection book belonging to Imperial Life Insurance Co. Find er return to Gaeette office and «#■ ! ceive liberal reward* Although latest reports from Jap an lead to the hope that the death ton is not as large as has been fear ed, the destruction wrought by >he earthquake, tidal wave, and fire has been tremendous. Dispatches from Shanghai todays says that informa tion received there makes it appar ent that losses both in life and pro perty were “much exaggerated.” Different sources agree, however, .that two-thirds of Tokio hits been laid waste. Three United States destmyers have arrived at Yokohama and taken aboard 300 Americans. One report which has not been confirmed, says that cholera has broken out in iliac port. As America hurries supply ships across the Pacific, peop(6 of the United States are responding gene - ously to the appeal for help, and it is believed the $5,000,000 quota of the Red Cross can be surpassed. CINCINNATTI NATIONALS TO FILE SUIT IN BEHALF OF PLAYERS Cincinnatti, Ohio, September 7 —President August Hermann of the Cincinnatti Nationals announced that a suit for $50,000 damages would be filed by the club in behalf of players Pat Duncan and Sammy Bohne against “Collyers Eye” in United States court at Chicago to day. e said the suit wife results of charges in Collyers Eye that the players had been approached by gamblers during the New York ser ies in Cincinnatti. -O FIVE MILLION SUBSCRIBED TO JAPANESE BELIEF Washington,. September, 7 <P)— Early reports to the Red Cross headquarters here indicated that sub scriptions to five million dollars to the Japanese Relief fund were near ing the two million mark. STEAMER REPORTED BURNED IS SAFE IN MANILA Washington, September 7 OP)—The San Francisco office of the shipping board reported to The board that the steamer President Grant1' reported burned at Manila is “safe in Manila haibor.” -o GOVERNMENT PROCLAIMS ’ 30 DAYS MORATORIUM Osaka, September 7 OP)—The Jap anese government proclaimed a 30 clay moratorium for payments fall ing due from September 1st to 30 day moratorium is in applicable out side the zone of disaster. ---•-O-4 MINERS HAVE CONFERENCE IN HARRISBURG Harrisburg, Penn., September 7. (P>—Miners union leaders went into ses-ion with delegates of their <•. ■ n iza ion representing the anthracite workers determined to recommend a course which may end suspension of mining. President Lewis of the min ers however would give no indication of what decision was reached through his associates were optimistic r.J to its possible results. -o--— CABLE SAYS AMERICAN CONSULS ARE SAFE Washington, September 7 (P>— *."• isul Dickover at Kobe cabled the Slate Department that the American consuls and committee* at Nagoya Nagasaki and Taihoku were *afe. FOR SALE—$15.00 each. Llewllin ;etter puppies. Best of breeding. C. W. McMohan, Ridgeway, Va. -r» COLORED WOMAN—Wanted to take care of house and cook .for family of three. Good wages. Mrs. M. E. Murray. •-o The Rockingham county Fair ve gins Tuesday, September 11th. This is the big gala day for Leaksville Spray and it promises to be, bagger and better than ever. Everybody in this community should make an at tempt to attend the Fair. -o THE GAZETTE IN EVERT SOME
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